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This is a big year for the Toronto International Film Festival, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. It's a great place to catch the big titles likely to be making headlines over the coming year, and it often picks future award winners.
The festival runs from 4 to 14 September.
View Films by Strand:
- Centrepiece
- Discovery
- Festival Street
- Gala Presentations
- Luminaries
- Midnight Madness
- Platform
- Shorts
- Special Presentations
- TIFF Classics
- TIFF Docs
- Wavelengths
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Toronto Latest Reviews
Rose Of Nevada
A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.
A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.
Marama
A young Māori woman travels to Victorian England after receiving a letter promising information about her birth parents. As she peels back the layers of colonial deceit, she is driven to avenge her shattered ancestry.
A young Māori woman travels to Victorian England after receiving a letter promising information about her birth parents. As she peels back the layers of colonial deceit, she is driven to avenge her shattered ancestry.
All The Empty Rooms
A short documentary following correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they embark on a seven-year-long project to document the empty bedrooms of children killed in school shootings.
A short documentary following correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they embark on a seven-year-long project to document the empty bedrooms of children killed in school shootings.
A Pale View Of Hills
UK 1982. An young aspiring Japanese-British writer plans to write a book based on her mother Etsuko’s post-war experiences in Nagasaki. Haunted by the suicide of her older daughter, Etsuko begins to recount her memories from 1952 as a young mother-to-be. The writer begins to find troubling inconsistencies in the recollections.
UK 1982. An young aspiring Japanese-British writer plans to write a book based on her mother Etsuko’s post-war experiences in Nagasaki. Haunted by the suicide of her older daughter, Etsuko begins to recount her memories from 1952 as a young mother-to-be. The writer begins to find troubling inconsistencies in the recollections.
The Wizard Of The Kremlin
Russia, early 1990s. Amid post-Soviet chaos, a brilliant young man, Vadim Baranov, charts his path. First an artist, then a reality show producer, he becomes the spin doctor to a rising KGB agent: Vladimir Putin.
Russia, early 1990s. Amid post-Soviet chaos, a brilliant young man, Vadim Baranov, charts his path. First an artist, then a reality show producer, he becomes the spin doctor to a rising KGB agent: Vladimir Putin.
Babystar
A family vlogger's teenage daughter discovers that her parents plan to have another child and begins to question the cost of her lifelong celebrity.
A family vlogger's teenage daughter discovers that her parents plan to have another child and begins to question the cost of her lifelong celebrity.
Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie
When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.
When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.
Maddie's Secret
A food influencer secretly struggles with bulimia as she navigates online fame, close friendships, and a painful past.
A food influencer secretly struggles with bulimia as she navigates online fame, close friendships, and a painful past.
Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk
A glimpse of everyday reality for people living in Gaza in 2024.
A glimpse of everyday reality for people living in Gaza in 2024.
Train Dreams
Robert Grainier is a day laborer building America’s railroads at the start of the 20th century as he experiences profound love, shocking defeat, and a world irrevocably transforming before his very eyes.
Robert Grainier is a day laborer building America’s railroads at the start of the 20th century as he experiences profound love, shocking defeat, and a world irrevocably transforming before his very eyes.
Toronto International Film Festival Features
From the withered tree
Taratoa Stappard on colonial hierarchies, Ariana Osborne and Marama
Behind the tsar
Olivier Assayas on humanising history in The Wizard Of The Kremlin
The dying house
Taratoa Stappard on colonial horrors and inventing the Maori Gothic with Marama
The mighty Amazon
Gabriel Mascaro on balancing beauty and identification in The Blue Trail
Looking back
Kei Ishikawa on memory, ambiguity and A Pale View Of Hills
'Children can understand a lot more than we think..'
The makers of Little Amélie on why perceptions about animation are changing
'I like putting incompatible stuff together and seeing how it works'
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke on mixing fantasy and reality in A Useful Ghost
'The important thing is to make films you believe in'
Ben Rivers on myth adaptation and world creation in Mare's Nest
Song of the desert
Kangding Ray on changing attitudes to music in cinema, and scoring Sirât
'I think it completely changed my life'
Aleksandre Koberidze on his love for the Sony Ericsson and using it to shoot Dry Leaf
It’s about re-enchantment
Christian Petzold on cinema history, lullabies, Laura, Rebecca and Miroirs No. 3
Contested stories
Siyou Tan on teenage friendships, ghosts and the search of truth in Amoeba
'I didn't make this film myself. The Islamic Republic made it by putting me in prison'
Jafar Panahi on the inspiration for It Was Just An Accident
'Simple is actually the hardest to do'
Eric San - aka Kid Koala - on minimalism and cherishing the moment in Space Cadet
Dual identity
Or Sinai on exploring the life of a migrant worker who returns home in Mama
'I admit it was crazy idea, but then film people are crazy'
Richard Linklater on chronicling the creation of Godard's Breathless in Nouvelle Vague
Slice of life... and fable
The President's Cake director Hasan Hadi on the challenges and craft behind his debut
A test of love
Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer on Honey Bunch
Tales from the tundra
Zacharias Kunuk on telling traditional stories in Wrong Husband
Toronto International Film Festival News
Hamnet wins Toronto audience award
Forastera takes FIPRECI prize
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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